A Regency rosewood breakfront open bookcase attributed to Gillows the shaped top with a brass gallery above a contre-partie boulle-work frieze and four fluted pilasters and three alcoves for five shelves, decorated with brass stringing, solid rosewood corbels and reeded feet, English, c1815.

Footnote: For a library table inlaid with the premiere-partie of the same boulle design see Susan E Stuart, ‘Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840,’ Antique Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge, 2008 Vol.I pp291. Pls 308 and 309.